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This article provides an analysis of the educational use of Facebook as a remote collaborative learning platform in higher education, especially at the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Mahdia (Tunisia). The aim of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative work through an activity involving computer science students in a collective process of knowledge construction. Because of the social interactions that accompany this process, the privileged model of learning during this activity was the social learning. As part of this study, we try to determine how the use of Facebook as a tool for sharing, communication and networking exchanges can promote the effectiveness of collaborative learning. Our analysis of data from traces of activities on the Facebook group's wall and the contents of the semi-structured interviews conducted with students enabled us to answer our initial question. Indeed, the results show that the use o f Facebook as an online collaborative learning platform actually promotes the co-production skills and knowledge expected from students. Regarding students' interactions, there is a good quality of communication. Thus, we concluded that the use of Facebook is effective for the establishment of a remote collaborative learning activity, but there are some preconditions to be met such as implementing a true accompanying scenario throughout the activity.

Keywords: Facebook, apprentissage social, interactions, apprentissage collaboratif, travail collaboratif, Facebook, social learning, interactions, collaborative learning, collaborative work

The unexpected situation of the COVID-19 pandemic forced all parties involved, starting from March 16, 2020, to switch to distance education training courses immediately in order to ensure pedagogical continuity in French universities. Everyone concerned had to face this abrupt and radical upheaval in teaching and learning conditions. With the aim of ensuring coordinated use of the digital tools of the EAD in this period of health crisis, we show, based on research carried out in one of the components of Unistra, what could be the determinants of a success in the coordinated of digital and institutional social networks.

Keywords: EAD, continuité pédagogique, crise sanitaire, RSN et réseaux institutionnels, usages du numérique, coordination des outils, appropriation technopédagogique, Distance education, educational continuity, health crisis, digital social networks (DSN), institutional networks, digital uses, coordination of tools, technopedagogical appropriation

The present study reports on factors determining the adoption of social networks in distance education (DE) in a health context. An online questionnaire, based on the acceptance and use of technology model (UTAUT) was administered to 93 students from Niger universities and colleges who used social networks to ensure educational continuity. The Partial Least-Squares (PLS) method was used to predict the factors influencing the adoption of social networks in DE. The results showed that performance expectation, effort expectation, social influence and intention to use are determining factors in the adoption of social networks, with a moderating effect of gender.

Keywords: Réseaux sociaux numériques, UTAUT, adoption des technologies, étudiants, Niger, Social networks, UTAUT, technology adoption, students, Niger

The purpose of this exploratory case study is to consider from peer tutors’ perspective the relevance of information literacy (IL) in their roles as tutors, students and in their everyday lives. The research used a qualitative methodology, wherein nine participants shared thoughts and reflections in course discussion forums in response to six online modules, each outlining one the the six frames of the ACRL information literacy framework. The data-gathering phase of the study was bookended by focus groups that were also recorded. Analysis of these various discussions reveals that while tutors see the relevance of IL in their everyday lives, their responses in terms of their roles as tutors and students varies depending on the nature of their program. The need to budget research time efficiently in response to a heavy course load prevents some from pursuing information more broadly or deeply than strictly necessary. The paper considers implications of these insights for further inquiry into the library’s role in advancing IL development in a polytechnical environment.

Keywords: tutorat par les pairs, peer tutoring, maîtrise de l’information, information literacy, case studies, étude de cas, bibliothèques universitaires, academic libraries, formation polytechnique, technical education

Local food systems are seen as an applicable alternative to the dominant agro-industrial model and its negative externalities. Understanding the regional production sector can help to structure the local market and secure its development. This study is part of this process. Its purpose is to prepare a status report about the horticultural sector that operates in short circuits in the Saguenay– Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. We conducted a questionnaire on 95 producers of the region. The quantitative data obtained allow us to identify the challenges that local agriculture is facing. These data can also support other work on the development of the local food sovereignty.

Keywords: Local food systems, Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean, Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean, systèmes alimentaires de proximité, agriculture, agriculture

The constant presence of refugees in the media has constructed its own reality, at the expense of lived reality. Any work concerned with refugees’ lived experience will need to find ways to encourage people to see beyond this discourse. Based on research with refugees placed in depopulating villages in Italy, this article follows the process of collaboratively creating a visual essay that reflects the lived reality of refugee participants. The essay’s aim is to let readers share in an experience, rather than merely documenting that of others. This article reflects on efforts to achieve this through experimenting with the essay’s form, poetics and aesthetics. In doing so, the article discusses an alternative way of communicating research and presenting a visual essay.

COVID-19 has led many to question how education and schooling are supposed to continue in a world of uncertainty. This case follows the journey of Mariam, an Ontario elementary school principal, as she pivoted her leadership while transitioning between in-person and virtual schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case narrative describes the events that turned Mariam’s leadership upside-down and required her to adapt to meet the needs of the school community; in the process, however, she forgot about her own needs. Crisis leadership forced her to learn, unlearn, and relearn her beliefs about her leadership choices and purpose. The case includes teaching notes and two activities: (a) using a crisis leadership framework for reflecting on the learning, unlearning, and relearning of education, schooling, and the purpose of educational leadership during a pandemic, and (b) strategies to help leaders refocus from the outside in using self-care. Instructors can use this case in graduate-level leadership courses and for professional development.

Keywords: school leadership, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis leadership framework, self-care

The consequences of corruption and international abusive tax practices are not only negative and costly for the States that suffer their damaging effects; they are as much so for the firms engaging in them, even though they may assert the opposite. In response to this increasingly intolerable situation, the States get organized. But the fight will be of no avail if not all the countries and territories cooperate and harmonize their actions and strategies.Then the firms will have no option but to assume their corporate social responsability by renouncing their corruption and tax abusive practices.